[LON-CAPA-dev] gnuplot and jpeg

Martin Siegert lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:11:17 -0700


I just mailed Scott about this:
for everybody who wants to try out grace and is too lazy to compile from
source (which is not completely trivial):
I compile it for RH 7.2 a while ago. The RPMS are here:

http://www.sfu.ca/~siegert/grace.html

You need the netcdf RPM as well. You probably don't need the pdflib RPM.

Martin

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:03:48PM -0400, Matthew Brian Hall wrote:
> It has been suggested that we try out 'grace'.
> http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/
> 
> Not that this is the best time for you to be learning a new system, but anyone
> who would like to is encouraged to look into it and talk to me about reworking
> the plotting interface to use it instead of or as well as gnuplot.  Grace does
> not do GIF images, but it does (claim to) handle JPEGs.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> > The newest beta
> release of Gnuplot only supports ASCII-art output. > > Scott Harrison wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Anybody Who is Working with Gnuplot:
> > >
> > > So... for a non-LON-CAPA project I have been
> > > gnuplot generating JPEGs and/or PNGs (the user
> > > can choose).
> > >
> > > So guess what, RedHat's latest gnuplot RPM for RH7.2
> > >
> > > DOES NOT SUPPORT JPEG.
> > >
> > > Sigh...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Scott
> > >
> > > --
> > > Scott Harrison -- Graduate Student
> > > Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
> > > Mich. State. Univ., East Lansing, MI
> > > harris41@msu.edu, 517-353-0998
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